The horror came early in the morning on Sept. 11, 2001, writes Rick Kogan. But that defining news event of the 21st century would later be rivaled by another — a global pandemic still unfolding.
Firefighters from Ladder 24 salute during the funeral ceremony on Sept. 15, 2001, for Fr. Mychal Judge, who died in the World Trade Center bombing while giving last rites to firemen at the scene.There were only a few of us in the Tribune Tower’s editorial offices that September morning when one reporter began to scream, a little after 8 a.m., “Where’s a TV? We need a TV.” And so a television set was found in an editor’s office and we gathered there and … well, you know.
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama walks from the U.S. Capitol with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia, 6, left, and Sasha, 3, to a reception after he was sworn in on Jan. 4, 2005. In just three years, he would be elected president of the United States.was typically getting more than 100 million page views a month from 10 million unique readers.
Those who remained have also moved. We departed the Tribune Tower in June 2018 so that its new owners could redevelop the building into condominiums. When moving day arrived, the paper’s then-Editor Bruce Dold said to an assembled staff, “Let’s toast to this newsroom, to the tower, and to the future of the Chicago Tribune, the future of journalism.”
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